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healthy pasta recipes

Sometimes keeping it simple is the best.
Every Easter when I was growing up - and really, almost every other holiday - my family would go over to my grandma's for a big family get together. I've talked about my amazing grandma before, but she loved to cook for everyone - and she pretty much always overdid it with how much food she made.
There would be a ridiculous amount of dishes for everyone to enjoy. From a giant antipasto salad and homemade breads, to a gigantic spread for the main course, to probably half a dozen desserts, complete with her annual bunny-shaped Easter cake, my grandma always spent days preparing. She also always made me eggplant parmigiana because I loved it (and later on, I developed an allergy to it, probably from eating it too much!).
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When it comes to cooking, tons of ingredients don't necessarily equate to deliciousness. Sometimes the simplest of recipes are the best. This is the case for my very favorite pasta sauce....
You might have caught on by now that I love tomatoes. My adoration for them began as a kid growing up in Jersey, eating the giant tomatoes my grandpa grew in his garden. My love for tomatoes only grew when I studied abroad in Italy. I talked about this when I did a post about classic tomato sauce awhile ago, but while in Sicily, I ate a ridiculous amount of tomatoes - a lot of the time in caprese salads or pasta pomodoro. I seriously never got sick of eating these dishes! If you ask different people, you'll get different answers, but to me, a pomodoro sauce and a marinara sauce differ in that ... [Read More]